radeonhd issue in gentoo... - Overclock.net

adramalech707 · 2 Weeks Ago

okay so i have an RS780M chipset and hd3200 ati card on my laptop...the issue i am having is 3d acceleration....with radeonhd opensource driver...

i want to have 3d acceleration but dri is experimental with my card right now.....from what i got from the radeonhd wiki and the gentoo radeonhd install guide....

i tried to manually setup my xorg with dri enabled and xaa accleration using radeonhd as the driver....i also have mesa installed and radeon installed...

i tried to do glxinfo but it doesn't know what the command is even if i sudo it...so that tells me that 3d acceration is either not installed or the driver doesn't support it yet...

also i tried to lspci -v and i looked at my vga card and it showed kernel module in use not listed i did though reinstall xorg radeon radeonhd and mesa to see if that would help

i even tried to emerge -Dup world to update the world and it's dependences and that didn't fix anything....

i tried posting in gentoo forums with no replies so i am trying here to see if someone who runs gentoo with this card or even linux with this card....sourced based distro's only(gentoo...etc..) not binary distro's(ie *buntu, arch,etc... ) that have either fixed this issue or have this issue....

i have custom kernel 2.6.30-r5 running and the newest xorg-server also amd64 arch multilib...with xfce 4.6 desktop

laptop is hp dv7-1245dx

**gonX** · 2 Weeks Ago

Have you tried running fglrx instead of radeonhd? radeonhd has pretty scarce support for 3D.

Also, glxgears/glxinfo is in the mesa package. Try:

Code:

emerge mesa

It could also be that you're missing some USE flags. You need mesa (if it exists) and opengl as USE flags.

adramalech707 · 2 Weeks Ago

will try this when I get a chance I will mostlikely use fglrx

GodofGrunts · 2 Weeks Ago

Is there a reason you're avoiding the proprietary drivers?

adramalech707 · 2 Weeks Ago

i just find that if i use open source drivers the bigger impact i will have with the overall open source feel of the os...plus using proprietary drivers on an open source os to me is contradictory....

also with ati now releasing catalyst for linux within a couple years i find that there probably are less bugs in fglrx or radeon or even radeonhd (once radeon/radeonhd become substantiated fully as a more dominate driver...)

also using ati drivers in past windows builds make me leery about using their proprietary stuff...because how much worse are they going to be...

and i know the linux drivers and windows drivers might be produced from two different teams in the ati camp....the problem i have is in their overall results and that is ati still is pumping out drivers that are substandard to nvidia....

GodofGrunts · 2 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by adramalech707

i just find that if i use open source drivers the bigger impact i will have with the overall open source feel of the os...plus using proprietary drivers on an open source os to me is contradictory....

also with ati now releasing catalyst for linux within a couple years i find that there probably are less bugs in fglrx or radeon or even radeonhd (once radeon/radeonhd become substantiated fully as a more dominate driver...)

also using ati drivers in past windows builds make me leery about using their proprietary stuff...because how much worse are they going to be...

and i know the linux drivers and windows drivers might be produced from two different teams in the ati camp....the problem i have is in their overall results and that is ati still is pumping out drivers that are substandard to nvidia....

Ah. I agree with you. I was just curious.

adramalech707 · 2 Weeks Ago

okay well fglrx hates my laptop or visa-versa

so i put VIDEO CARD = " fglrx"

i put mesa, and opengl use flag....also installed the ati-drivers package and did eselect opengl ati and it hates me....

i will try and either troubleshoot it or what not...

now should i add to autoload.d/kernel-2.6 the fglrx module? it doesn't seem to have the ability to modprobe fglrx

but kernel module on lspci -v for vga card is fglrx....so atleast it got installed...but it could be i didn't reinstall dri which maybe is an issue....

any suggestions?? i really don't wana muck it up any worse...and right now i can tell xorg.conf is wrong or driver not installed correctly because webpage scrolling is very choppy now...

*edit*
okay i did something dumb i forgot to disable dri and totally uninstall it then modprobe fglrx and see if that works...okay going to go fix module in kernel...

*edit#2*
okay well this is what i get

Code:

~ # sudo modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r5/video/fglrx.ko): Operation not permitted

also made sure dri wasn't there nor radeon or radeonhd...so what gives.... i even did this to make a nice xorg.conf now....

~ # sudo /opt/bin/aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

and this is what xorg.conf looks like:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
	Screen      0  "Default Screen" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Configured Video Device"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Default Screen"
	Device     "Configured Video Device"
	Monitor    "Configured Monitor"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1440x900"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

**and yet another edit**

Code:

~ # sudo fglrxinfo
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  154 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  14
  Current serial number in output stream:  14

**gonX** · 2 Weeks Ago

Try:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fglrx

fglrx setup is vastly different from both nVidia and open-source solutions

adramalech707 · 2 Weeks Ago

this is what xorg log says....

Code:

cat Xorg.0.log | grep EE
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. 
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.

and i did what the wiki said how to install fglrx but i guess i did something wrong....

is there a way to reinstall dri? i got dri from git mirror....

**gonX** · 2 Weeks Ago

Try removing dri2 from the xorg.conf and replacing it with just dri instead.

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